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Recruit #1: David Ware
I needed two guards for this class, primarily to play SG. Ware was not a top option to begin with, but he became our best option. With high-high potential in defense, he will be a good enough defender to play in the ACC. He'll be a good shooter and passer, but his handles aren't what I would hope for. Overall, he's pretty good, but not great.

Recruit #2: Michael Eckhart
He has some big weaknesses, like his very low defense and his low rebounding (it's low-high so it'll never be great), but he also has great strengths; high-high in athleticism, low post, and perimeter (not sure about BH). He'll be a great athletic shooter off the bench for (hopefully) the next 3 years, although he may end up starting earlier if Christian goes pro.

Recruit #3: Thomas More
With high-high potential in LP and Per (and speed unknown), I think he could develop into a stellar PF for us. He's not going to be overly athletic, but he should end up being able to score and rebound. Like Ware, he's a guy who's going to be good and not great.

Recruit #4: Tim Braden
An unranked C from MD, Braden may be my favorite player in this class. He has high-high potential in Ath, Reb, SB, and Def, which means he should get to around 90+ in all of them. I like to think of him as a Tyson Chandler-type players: tons of defense and his offense is coming off of dunks and put backs. Also, he'll be taking a RS this year because More is more ready to play and I already have Neil Kelley who is going to be in this class (inel last year).

Recruit #5: William DuBois
Since we're going to be bad again this year, he might actually start to get his lowly 25 WE up. He has high-high potential in rebounding, defense, and ball handling, low-high in speed, LP and Per (obviously). I am really hoping ath is high-high, although I didn't scout enough to find out because I knew he was good enough anyway to be a backup SG, which is all I really need from him. If he is high-high in ath, he could really be a gem, possibly even get drafted (if it gets in the 80s).

This year's recruiting class was obviously not as highly ranked as last year's, but they have a lot of potential and could end up being very good. Plus, most of them will be backups for three years and these are some damn good backups.

We went 9-18 this year, but we won 5 games in the ACC and upset a ranked FSU team towards the end of the year. We did make some good progress towards the end of the year.
Eckhart's ATH and PER just turned black and Braden's ATH just turned black. Christian's LP cap is 99 and PER is 93. Glanz LP cap is 88 or 89 (I believe). I am very excited about Christian's development (obviously, hope he doesn't leave, I think there's a very slim chance of that). Moore's improvement has also been awesome, hopefully he can get 95 LP or so. He reminds me a lot of Gilberto Romano of my old Nevada team.

Recruit #1: Richard Slater
I knew I wanted to cut Neil Kelley this year (signed by Richmond) and I’d have to bring in 2 guys with one scholarship’s worth of money. I ended up scouting a few guys and decided that my best play was to go with Slater. He came cheap, I had to spend a whopping $1k to scout him and then bring him in. He’s low-high in athleticism, which isn’t ideal, but he’s high-high in LP, which is what I needed to know before I recruited him. I wish there was a way to know that his LP would cap at 95 instead of 60, but it’s a risk I’m going to have to take. Also, his defense is lower than what I would hope for, so I know he’s not a great recruit, but he has the upside (albeit way down the line) to be an athletic rebounder and scorer who can block shots, and that is a valuable piece to have when you only had to spend 1k to bring it in.

Recruit #2: Steven Rogers
Unlike Slater, Rogers did not come cheap. I spent 31k on Rogers (battling Richmond), which was the majority of my budget. I believe I had 38k or so to start, spent a bunch on scouting-and by scouting I don’t just mean FSS…too many people think that’s all scouting is. Scouting is FSS as well as sending evals to a bunch of potential recruits to see where their high-high potentials are. If you’re not finding guys with high-high potentials, you’re not finding the guys who are going to help you make deep runs in the tournament. Rogers is a guy with a lot of high-high potentials. Every high potential is a high-high (except for PER, but that will be in the 90s without high-high so I didn’t really need it there), which will make Rogers into a great scorer by the time he’s done at NC State. Obviously I wish his rebounding were better, but I really don’t have any other complaints. Overall, I’m extremely pumped to get a guy like Rogers with such little money available.

We had a good run this year, going 14-2 in the ACC and getting a 5 seed. We barely won our first game against Navy and then upset 4 seed Pitt on a half-court shot at the buzzer. We went down to 1 seed Michigan State in the sweet 16, but making the sweet 16 with no seniors in quite an accomplishment. Now the real question is, will 1st team all-american and ACC POY Jimmy Christian return for his senior season? He's the difference between finally being a contender to go deep in the tournament and being a 1st round exit type of team next season. Here's this year's team:

Jimmy Christian declared for the draft last night, leaving my hopes and dreams of a deep NT run shattered. It's not like this was unexpected though, I have two SFs on the roster for expressly this scenario. Unfortunately, Eckhart is a marginal starter (at best) and while I expect Steven Rogers to be very good down the line, he's just not ready yet. We'll still be good next year, but we have a bunch of guys who are #2 and #3 scorers and no one to really carry the scoring load. I think JC has been my favorite NC State player so far, so here's to hoping he goes high in the draft! Here are his final ratings:

Recruiting this year was very uneventful. With only one open scholarship, I knew I needed to get a guard because my roster is very big man heavy right now. We have two quality SFs who won't be leaving soon, so a guard was our only need. I decided to stay local (10 miles) and ended up getting on Steverson on the very first cycle and I encountered no resistance whatsoever. I didn't do my normal recruit-tracking this year because I didn't need to scout many states to find a good target and without a comprehensive look at the area, there's really no point in closely examining recruiting. Steverson has high-high in Per and BH, so he'll definitely be able to score down the line. He won't be the fastest, but I'd say he's a pretty good recruit for only having 1 opening.

We had a decent year, all things considered (namely a strong ACC and a lack of Jimmy Christian). We had several solid non-conference wins, which helped us when we started to struggle a bit in the ACC. We went 10-6 in the ACC and finished 2nd in the division. We ended up with an 8 seed, matched up with St. Joe's in the first round. We won fairly comfortably, but in the 2nd round we faced 1 seed Texas Tech, who handled us with ease. WIthout Christian, I am happy we were able to win an NT game, I just wish I could have seen what we would have been with him. Some of our graduating seniors from my best class ever finished up there in the NC State Record books: Glanz and Johnson finished 4th and 5th in rebounds and 12th and 5th in blocks, respectively. Glanz was also 12th in FG%. John Conner is the all-time assists leader by a large margin as well as 12th in steals. As of right now, junior David Ware (1st-team all-ACC this past season) is leading in all-time 3pt% and is 6th in FT%. I'll miss this class and I look forward to reloading in this upcoming recruiting class.